the dark knight

[Jeanette X]

I didn't think it was all that great. :iconoclast

For starters, with Christian Bale as Bruce Wayne, all I could think was "American Psycho!" That wasn't Bruce Wayne talking to his friends, it was Patrick Bateman. Heath Ledger and Two-Face were good, but that isn't what bothered me.

It bothered me that the city looked too...normal. Gotham shouldn't look like just Anycity, USA, it should look like a dark, forbodeing metropolis. Tim Burton said that he wanted Gotham to look like "As if Hell came sprouting out of the concrete and kept right on growing.", He made sure to make it look scary and perpetually gloomy. That's what set the mood in Burton's movies, and made them enjoyable for me. But in this movie, so much of the action took place in broad daylight, it wasn't even remotely gloomy. It just didn't have the right atmosphere, at least not in my opinion.

Furthermore, since when does Batman operate out of a simple basement? What the hell happened to the Batcave? A little lame, if you ask me.